Airport System Planning Practices (2009)

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June 13, 2008 Dear State Aviation Director: The enclosed questionnaire comes to you on behalf of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). Information that you are being asked to provide will support an important Airport Cooperative Research Synthesis Project (ACRP) addressing current practices on Aviation System Planning. The enclosed questionnaire is designed to gather information on various aspects of aviation system planning as it is currently being conducted, used, and implemented. In order to meet TRB’s goal for 100 percent response, please complete the enclosed questionnaire or please direct it to the person on your staff who is most knowledgeable or in charge of your aviation system planning. If you do not have an aviation system plan that you are currently using, please indicate and return your blank survey. Please provide your response no later than July 9, 2008. There are three ways you can respond to this survey: The completed survey can be returned via U.S. mail in the enclosed pre-paid envelope. The completed survey can be faxed to 513.624.5182. The completed survey can also be filled out electronically; you will receive an email with the survey as an attachment and the questionnaire can be completed electronically and returned via email. Please answer all questions to the best of your knowledge, based on your most current aviation system plan. If you would like to furnish any additional comments on the current state of aviation system planning or best practices on aviation system planning, please feel free to provide these as an attachment when you return your survey. Thank you for taking time to participate in this important TRB research project. Your responses will be compiled with those from other states, and the results of this project should be available in the fall. Sincerely, Barbara Fritsche Senior Vice President Wilbur Smith Associates 6600 Clough Pike Cincinnati, Ohio 45224 513.233.3700 office 513.479.3053 cell 513.624.5182 fax Enclosure 29 APPENDIX A Survey Instruments

Survey Airport System Planning Practices Synthesis S03-4 State: This data request was completed by: Name: Email: Phone: A. General Information about Your System Plan 1. What year was your most recent system plan published? a. What is the name of this document? 2. Have you completed an interim update to selected elements of your system plan since the plan was published?  YES  NO 3. In what year do you anticipate a full update to your system plan? 4. Do you have a policy to update your system plan on regular intervals?  YES  NO 5. If so, how often do you update your plan? Every years 6. Does the fact that funds for system planning from the FAA are no longer “set aside” influence your willingness/ability to do system planning?  YES  NO 7. How did you fund your last aviation system plan? Primarily State funds  Primarily FAA general aviation apportionment funds  Other: (specify) 8. What types of airports did you develop recommendations for in your most recent system plan? Check all that apply. All commercial service  Small commercial service only  Publicly-owned general aviation NPIAS only  All publicly-owned general aviation including, NPIAS and non-NPIAS  Privately-owned, public-use general aviation  Privately-owned, private-use general aviation  Seaplane bases  Joint-use military airfields  Heliports  9. To the best of your ability, please indicate the ownership of the airport system you provide funding to. Number of Airports by Type City or County ___________ ___________ Authority ___________ ___________ State ___________ ___________ Private ___________ ___________ Other (specify) ___________ ___________ Total ___________ ___________ 30

31 10. Do you believe that the ownership structure reflected in the previous question has an impact on your ability to implement recommendations in your system plan? Positive impact on recommendations implementation  Negative impact on recommendations implementation  Has no impact or limited impact on recommendations implementation  B. System Plan Interface with the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) 1. Did you use your system plan to determine whether all airports in your state system that are now included in the NPIAS continue to meet NPIAS entry criteria? (Airports included in the NPIAS should have at least 10 based aircraft.)  YES  NO 2. Did you use your most recent system plan to suggest to FAA to remove airports from the NPIAS?  YES  NO 3. Did the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) adjust the NPIAS based on findings or recommendations from your most recent airport system plan?  YES  NO  UNCERTAIN 4. Did your most recent system plan identify new airports to be added to the NPIAS?  YES  NO Check all that apply. Commercial Service Airport  General Aviation Airport  Heliport  Seaplane base  C. Coordination Efforts Associated with Your System Plan 1. Did you involve any Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) in your system planning process?  YES  NO 2. If yes, how were the MPOs involved? Check all that apply. Development of work scope for the system plan  Participation in advisory committee for the system plan  Review of final study findings and recommendations  Integration of findings from state aviation system plan into regional/metropolitan transportation plan, multi-modal, or TIP  3. Are there MPOs in your state that have their own aviation system plan?  YES  NO 4. Is the MPO/Regional plan consistent with your state plan?  YES  NO  UNCERTAIN 5. Did you involve airport owners in your system planning process?  YES  NO 6. How were airports involved in your aviation system plan? Check all that apply. Contacted as part of data collection  Visited as part of data collection  Participated on advisory committee for the system plan  Cross-checked master plan recommendations with system plan recommendations  Reviewed findings and recommendations for their airport  Provided a summary for their specific system plan recommendations as part of study’s documentation  7. Does your system plan to examine the role that airports in neighboring states play in either contributing demand to your airport system or fulfilling demand generated by your state?  YES  NO

8. Did you involve DOTs from nearby states in the development of your system plan?  YES  NO 9. Did FAA participate in the development of your recent system plan?  YES  NO 10. How did FAA participate in your system plan? Check all that apply. Reviewed and approved scope of work  Participated on advisory committee  Reviewed and commented on draft working papers as the system plan was being prepared  Reviewed and approved final system plan report  11. Has your aviation system plan been adopted by your state’s department of transportation or another statewide planning agency?  YES  NO 12. Have recommendations from your aviation system plan been incorporated into the overall State Transportation Plan or Transportation Improvement Plan?  YES  NO D. System Plan Elements 1. Does your recent system plan have a comprehensive forecasting element?  YES  NO 2. How important were demand projections/forecasts to driving the final recommendations contained in your system plan? Very important  Important  Somewhat important  Not important  3. What demand elements did your system plan project? Check all that apply. Commercial passengers  Air cargo  Commercial operations  Based aircraft  General aviation operations  Fleet mix  Other (specify): 4. Have you classified airports in your system to reflect the role that each airport plays in supporting air transportation needs?  YES  NO 5. If you have assigned system roles to your airports other than standard FAA roles, please provide the nomenclature that you used in this process. (i.e.: Level I Airport, Business Airport, Minor Airport) 1._________________________ 2._________________________ 3._________________________ 4._________________________ 5._________________________ 6._________________________ 7._________________________ 8._________________________ 6. Was economic contribution or support used to assign a role to airports in your system?  YES  NO 7. If your airports have been assigned roles as part of a classification process, what criteria do you use to determine when it is appropriate for an airport to move up a level in the system? Check all that apply. Increased economic contribution  Increase in based aircraft  32

33 Increase in annual operations  Change in the fleet mix  Change in the socio-economic or demographic make-up of the community served by the airport  Other (please specify): 8. If airports in your system have been assigned roles, does your system plan identify facilities and services that should ideally be available at airports in each role or category?  YES  NO 9. Did your recent system plan evaluate ground access or connectivity to other transportation modes?  YES  NO 10. In addition to your aviation system plan, what other special studies have you completed for your airport system? Type of Special Study Yes No Year Completed Economic impact   Air service   Passenger demand   Land use compatibility   Air cargo   Policy/Strategic plan   Database   Military re-use   Other (specify) Other (specify) E. Use of Your Aviation System Plan 1. Was your recent system plan used to identify airports or facilities that are redundant or duplicative in nature because they serve limited demand or areas of low growth?  YES  NO 2. Does your recent system plan specifically identify high growth areas to insure that appropriate airport facilities are being planned?  YES  NO 3. Do you use your system plan to decide which projects should be awarded state funds on an annual basis?  YES  NO 4. Have you ever used your system plan to “deny” funding to an airport’s request for funding because the project was not identified as being needed by your system plan?  YES  NO 5. Has your system plan been developed using a sustainable planning process so you can easily re-evaluate the system in a future planning cycle to measure progress toward specific objectives for your system?  YES  NO 6. Has your plan been developed so that you can show how your investment decisions are helping to improve the perfor- mance of the system relative to a set of established system performance measures or criteria?  YES  NO 7. What do you believe is the biggest obstacle to implementing the recommendations in your system plan? Check only one. Height obstructions  Incompatible land use encroachment  Lack of federal funding  Lack of state funding  Lack of local funding 

Unreasonable recommendations  Lack of cooperation from individual airports  Other (specify): 8. Have the results of your system plan been shared or coordinated with local/regional/state economic development agen- cies? Check all that apply. During plan development  During plan review/approval  During plan adoption  Only on agency request  Results not shared  9. How would you rate the overall effectiveness of your system plan as it relates to your objectives for using the plan? Very effective  Effective  Somewhat effective  Not effective  Transportation Research Board ACRP Airport System Planning Synthesis Questions for Other Metropolitan/Regional and/or Multi-State Plans 1. How long has your agency been engaged in preparing airport system planning studies? 2. How frequently does your agency prepare an airport system plan? 3. What is the name of the last airport system planning study your agency published? When was that plan published? 4. Does your agency have a policy to undertake regular updates to its airport system plan? If so, at what intervals and when do you expect undertaking your next update? 5. Does the fact that FAA no longer provides “set aside” funds for airport system planning negatively impact your ability to do system planning? 6. What is the primary funding source for your airport system planning efforts? 7. How many airports are in the system that you plan for? 8. Do you plan for both commercial and general aviation airports? 9. Do you consider privately-owned, public-use airports in your plan? Do you consider privately-owned, private-use air- ports? Do you plan for heliports or seaplane bases? 10. What efforts (if any) were undertaken to interface or coordinate your plan with the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS)? What efforts, if any, were undertaken to interface or coordinate your plan with applicable state airport system plans? 11. Did your plan recommend additional airports to be added to the NPIAS? 12. Were recommendations from your plan incorporated into appropriate state airport system plans? 13. Is your most current plan consistent with the most current applicable state airport system plan? 34

35 14. Did you involve the FAA and/or State Department of Transportation(s) in the preparation of your airport system plan? If so, how? 15. Are there key issues or deficiencies for your airport system that lead to the development of an airport system plan? 16. What do you believe are the primary accomplishment/products of your planning efforts that are in addition to or additive to those that are outputs from the state airport system plan? 17. In what ways do your system planning efforts differ from traditional state airport system plans? 18. What types of special elements (ground access, environmental compatibility, land use planning, multi-modal interface as examples) do you address in your planning efforts that are not addressed in the state airport system plan? 19. Does your plan provide recommendations for individual system airports? How are these recommendations communicated and implemented? 20. Are the recommendations from your airport system planning incorporated or adopted into other regional transportation plans? 21. What do you see as the principal benefits of metropolitan/regional or multi-state system planning in comparison to traditional state airport system planning?